Architecture and Design Film Festival returns to New York
The ninth edition of the Architecture and Design Film Festival (ADFF) New York takes place from 1 to 5 November 2017 at the Cinépolis theatre complex in Chelsea.
The programme includes more than 30 short and feature-length films selected by festival director Kyle Bergman, along with panel discussions, filmmaker question-and-answer sessions, a pop-up bookstore by Phaidon, and VR experiences created by Gary Hustwit, director of Helvetica and Objectified.
The festival will host the world premieres of four movies. The first, SuperDesign, is a documentary about the emergence of Italian Radical Design during the country’s tumultuous political period in the 1960s and 1970s. It includes previously unseen archive footage, and interviews with key members of the movement such as Gaetano Pesce, Ugo La Pietra and Alessandro Mendini.
Another film making its debut is Made in Ilima, which follows the construction of a conservation-focused primary school and community centre in an isolated part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The project was completed by MASS Design Group and the African Wildlife Foundation in 2012, and involved using local craft and ecological knowledge to help preserve the forest and its endangered inhabitants.
MASS Design Group co-founders Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks will sit down with film director Thatcher Bean following the screening at 9pm, Friday 3 November 2017.